Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-09-30
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAl.

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Ex-senator Wallace, of Pennsyl-
vania, has made one million five hun
dred thousand dollars since he left the
Senate.
Roscoe Conkling has passion for
costly colored handkerchiefs. He
likes the brightest colors. - Cleveland
Leader.
w. L. Greeley, granddaughter of
the great Horace, is the proprietor of
barber shop and fiddle at Spring
Creek Station, Pa.
Olive Logan, who has been trying
to make her home in Washington, has
concluded to return to London and
Paris. She has lived so long abroad
that she finds the fairest cities of the
Republic dull, uncongenial. and un@s-
thetic.
--Thorndike Rice has bought the
suit of clothes which Washington wore
at his first Inauguration. 1t is made Of
glossy silk fabric, woven in France
expressly for the first President. There
are coat, waistcoat, knee trousers and
gold knee and shoe buckles.
Count Robilant, the Italian states
man, spent over twenty years of his
life at Vienna as Ambassador. He lost
his left arm in battle. He is the natu-
raj son of King Charles Albert, of Sar-
DINA, and, therefore, kind of uncle
to King Humbert. Chicago Herald.
The death rate of England is de-
creasing, and 100 people are added
yearly to each 10000 At the present
rate of increase, according to DR.. NJ
Tidy, the country's population twenty
generations hence will be 27,20O, 0OO,-
600, or enough to fill twenty earths
with the present density of population.
-Brooblyn Eagle.
The list of members of the Fiftieth
Congress present number of Presi-
dental names. There is Washing
ton, an Adams, Taylor and Hayes.
Washington, who is from Tennessee,
will be the first of the name to sit in
Congress. For many years the letter
Y has been represented in Congress,
but now it can boast the two names
Yoder and Yost.-C Chicago Times.
An Indian child born recently in
Big Valley, Shasta County, Cal, is pos
sessed of six well formed toes on each
foot and the same number Of fingers on
each hand, besides having both sides Of
its face covered with hair. The mother
gave birth to child about year ago
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sickened and died, and this last is in a
fair way for taking the same road
Chicago Tribune.
John Quincy Adams, during his
ong term of ) crvicc in Congress. was
never known to be late at his seat. On
one occasion, just rs the clock struck
the hour for the commencement of the
session, q member inquired of the
Speaker if it was not time to call the
House to order. "No, SIR" was the re-
ply; 'tMr. Adams is not yet in his
seat. Just then Mr.. Adams appeared,
and it was shown that the clock was
three minutes fast.-Boston Globe.
The heroes whom great men wor-
ship always have an interest in the
eyes of students of humanity. General
Wolseley is great man, and it is
therefore interesting to discover who in
his eyes towers above their fellows. He
reveals this secret in the new Macmillan
II have" he says, "met but two men
who realize my ideas of what true
hero should be. My friend Chinese
Gordon was one; General Lee was
the other" For General Lee Lord
Wolseley's admiration is almost un.
bounded. He devotes whole paper
to him. His character is declared tx
be without spot.-N Y. Herald.